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HTML HTML Basics Structuring Your Content Sectioning Content with <article>, <nav> and <aside>

Posted by Colin Lahsangah
Colin Lahsangah
1,088 Points

how to you make a link to your email or gmail?

is there anyway i can make a link to my email?

1 Answer

Matthew Carson
Matthew Carson
8,994 Points
Matthew Carson
Matthew Carson
8,994 Points

In an anchor tag's href attribute you can use 'mailto:' followed by an email address. This will open an new message draft in the user's default email program.

<a href="mailto:colin@example.com">Send email to Colin</a>

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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,198 Points

:warning: Before doing this on pages accessible to the general public, consider that bots scour the internet looking specifically for tags like this to collect addresses for sending spam to.   :see_no_evil:

Colin Lahsangah
Colin Lahsangah
1,088 Points

thank you for your time.